Natural high: escape to the Clark Art Institute’s first-ever outdoor exhibition

Titled ‘Ground/work’, the Institute’s first outdoor exhibition sees sculptures by Nairy Bagrahmian, Eva LeWitt and Kelly Akashi set against the bucolic landscape of the Berkshires in MassachusettsWith indoor activities largely restricted in the United States, what better way to make the most of sprawling grounds than to stage an exhibition of outdoor art? For the Clark Art Institute, located amidst the bucolic landscape of the Berkshires in Massachusetts, the timing coincided with a larger...

While many may know the Clark’s memorable setting for its iconic Tadao Ando-designed building and courtyard garden, the fact that its surrounding woodland trails, rolling hills and open meadows are publically accessible is a bit of a local secret. Now forming the backdrop for its first official exhibition, the institute’s incredible grounds offer newfound space to expand its curatorial vision.

As Meslay says, ‘For Ground/work, our meadows and woodlands serve as a kind of natural ‘gallery,’ offering visitors the opportunity to venture beyond our institutional walls and contemplate vibrant and inspiring contemporary works set amid the remarkable natural beauty that surrounds them.’Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles

The artists featured in the show include Kelly Akashi, Nairy Baghramian, Jennie C. Jones, Eva LeWitt, Analia Saban, and Haegue Yang, and each artist’s work responds to its surroundings, the environment and even the museum’s permanent collection in an individualised way.

‘The siting of each project is grounded in the specificity of the artists’ unique visions, and we were lucky that it came into being rather organically’, say Epstein and Goodman. ‘The result is a show that unfolds through wandering - there is no prescriptive order or hierarchical process of making one’s way through the landscape, and we hope that this freedom translates for visitors as a new awareness of the possibilities that both art and nature provide.

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